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26th March - 31st October open daily 10.30am to 5pm
Please contact the ticket office in advance to book your visit.
Guided Tours of the Castle are held daily (unless wedding or function - please check website or call to confirm) at 11.30, 12.30, 2pm and 3pm. On some Event Days Tours are self-guided.
150 year old Wisterial Tunnel - end of May
Gardens; Adults £8.50; Senior Citizens £7.50; Children 5 - 14 yrs £4.75
(under 5 yrs free)
Family ticket £24.00 (2 Adults, 3 Children maximum)
Gardens & Castle; Adults £13.00; Senior Citizens £11.50; Children 5 - 14 yrs
£7.25 (under 5 yrs free);
Family Ticket £36.50 (2 adults, 3 children
maximum).
Discounted rates available for groups of 20 or more.
Enjoy a delicious lunch or afternoon tea in the 1846 Joseph Paxton designed Orangery
Cafu00e9. Choose from delicious homemade cakes, quiches, homemade soup and much more
Children will have a fabulous day getting lost in the maze, discovering
the secret tunnel and zip wire, getting wet behind the waterfall and climbing around our
children's play area.
The Castle can be hired for weddings, private functions and corporate events.
Season Tickets to the Gardens available. Extensive events and activities: please see website www.hamptoncourt.org.uk
Stunning gardens (highly acclaimed, especially the vegetable one!). Flower gardens, avenues, borders, island pavilions, canals and a 150-year old wisteria tunnel leading to expanses of sweeping lawns and ancient trees. The organically managed kitchen garden supplies produce to the Orangery Restaurant. A 1,000-yew maze, with a gothic tower at its centre, offers panoramic views and a secret tunnel leads to a waterfall in the sunken garden.
The 15th century Castle surrounded by 1000 acres of stunning parkland, pasture and woodlands with the river Lugg running alongside predates Hampton Court Palace by some 80 years. The land was granted by King Henry IV to Sir Rowland Lenthall at the time of his marriage to Margaret Fitzalan, daughter of the Earl of Arundel, a cousin of the King. Lenthall built the original quadrangular manor house in 1427, 12 years after his Knighthood at the battle of Azincourt (1415). In 1434 he was granted licence to crenellate the house by King Henry VI.